Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 23:06:27 -0600 From: Patrick Giagnocavo <support@Xig.com> To: Burton Sampley <burton@bsampey.vip.best.com>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Accelerated-X v3.1 and XF86 3.3 Message-ID: <199706230506.XAA01822@chon.xig.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970622205203.431A-300000@bsampley.vip.best.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970622205203.431A-300000@bsampley.vip.best.com>
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Burton Sampley writes: > Greetings, > > I just finished installing FBSD 3.0-current with XFree86 3.3. When I > attempt to start X (using 'startx') with Accelerated X v3.1 (correctly > installed following the documented instructions) I keep getting the > following error (actually in attached file). I recently 'nuked' my hard > drives and did a new, clean install from the 3.0-SNAP 970618. Has anybody > else had this problem (FYI: This message is being sent to both > FreeBSD-current mailing list and support@xig.com)? If you've had the > problem, what was your solution. X will start if I change the comma's > separating the fontpath statements, but I can only use the 'fixed' font > and nothing else. Before I 'nuked' my HD's I made a backup of my old Hello Burton (and FreeBSD-current readers), The problem you are seeing is due to XF86 shipping their fonts in gzipped format. The X server does not know how to uncompress them. This is not of course something that we could know, since v3.1 shipped well before the XF86 release. And it is not something seen when running with AcceleratedX's CDE product, since we ship our own X libs and fonts with this. The solution: unix-prompt> cd /path/to/fonts unix-prompt> rm fonts.dir fonts.alias fonts.scale (note: not all files are necessarily present in each dir) unix-prompt> gzip -d * unix-prompt> compress * unix-prompt> mkfontdir Repeat for each font directory you are going to use - these are listed in the /etc/Xaccel.ini file... Cordially -- Patrick Giagnocavo - support@xig.com Xi Graphics - Accelerated X Servers Technical Support Department
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